Open AccessSpanish clitic clusters
Author(s) -
María Cristina Cuervo
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
borealis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1893-3211
DOI - 10.7557/1.2.2.2692
Subject(s) - clitic , linguistics , syntax , scope (computer science) , spurious relationship , linearization , set (abstract data type) , phonology , cluster (spacecraft) , syncretism (linguistics) , computer science , physics , philosophy , programming language , nonlinear system , quantum mechanics , machine learning
This paper deals with a small set of data from clusters of three clitics in Spanish that questions the empirical adequacy and scope of previous analyses of clitic clusters in Romance. It is shown that the output of the Spurious se Rule is not identical to genuine se, at some level that is relevant for linearization of clitics within a cluster. A proposal is presented to capture the neglected data, and this is done in a way that illuminates the debate on the division of labour in clitic phenomena between phonology, morphology and syntax. Central questions in morphology, such as ordering of operations, syncretisms, linearization principles and consequences of lexical insertion are addressed and re-examined